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i —troswhvious that the FBI's operations in this matter were carried out under J. Edgar Hoover’s personal direc- tion. Mere field agents do not rush out and arrest gov- ernment employes in the midst of a war on charges of conspiring to violate the espionage laws. That kind of thing involves the highest order of preparation and skill of handling. More than that, Hoover’s chief assistants have since testified on the point. They prepared for Fixed From the Amerasia arrests The Start care and precision. ; Yet what happened? No sooner were these people arrested than the charge was reduced—not by the FBI but by the Department of Justice which has the oath and obligation to prosecute evidence handed to it by the FbI—down to one dealing with conspiracy to embezzle and mutilate government documents. Right there, the thing begins. Why did the Depart- ment of Justice reverse the field on the FBI, which had made the arrests and sworn out the warrants and booked the prisoners? . And on from there, as all the world now knows, the fase was watered and watered down from a high and serious espionage matter to a mere business of putting small fines against two people. Why? Mr. McGranery's excuse is that the evidence was “very clumsily handled.” * * Senator Ferguson has shot that story as full of holes as a Swiss cheese. Lawyers, who delight in seeing a Tasterly technical analysis of precedent and rules of law, will enjoy reading his dissertation. He produces the famous work Wigmore, on Evidence, gection 2184a. He quotes from controlling Supreme Court decisions, such as Parts Manufac- | The Alibi turing Co., v. Lynch, and Silverthorne Exploded Lumber Company, Incorporated v, United States, just to cite a couple, and on and on through the rest, in full exposure of the aticitcmwhat it is. _——=_ * j \ I with the greatest . 4-74 Tolson, | Ladd _. Clegg wo Glavin Nichols Rosen Tracy Harbo Belmont Mohr Tele. Noase Gandy Room __ -te-gevtes BD. Milton Ladd, assistant directorOT 7 FBI, who testified under oath: The federal bureau of investigation secured no documer through any means during the course of this investigation e cept incident to arrest. They were all legally obtained. Everybody knows perfectly well Mr. Ladd is telli the truth. And that anybody would be foolish, if n worse, to try making it appear otherwise. The Ameras evidence was a major undertaking of the FBI. To su gest that J. Edgar Hoover would fiub the technic necessity to get his evidence so it would stand up court, is to talk rot. You can’t alibi this Amerasia scandal, Attorney Ge eral McGrath. You may as well come on out with t! rasty—teath and get done with it. — Page Times-Herald Wash, Post Wash. News Wash. Star N.Y. Mirror